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  • David H. Souter To Deliver Address at Harvard's 2010 Commencement (9 Feb 2010 11:50)

    ... Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter 61 will deliver ... court by Sonia M. Sotomayorsaid at a Constitution Day event last September that he planned ...

  • Effort seeks to establish constitutional rights for unborn (9 Feb 2010 06:31)

    ... The state constitution and Mississippi law give individuals a full ... the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution." WND previously has reported the effort ... key to nullifying the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling from 1973 in which justices discovered ...

  • ANALYSIS: Could a foreign government influence US elections? (9 Feb 2010 02:51)

    ... last month when he slammed a US Supreme Court ruling that "opens the floodgates" for companies ... found that free-speech protections in the US Constitution extend to companies and labour unions. Companies ... citizens and using money generated within the United States, is free to spend as much as ...

  • Avenging Proposition 8 (9 Feb 2010 07:55)

    ... way to the steps of the California Supreme Court building, joining the throngs of people who ... like it. First, some background: The California Constitution is notorious for its length, which is ... month ago, the trial began in the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern ...

  • Worrying 'wonders' are adding up (9 Feb 2010 06:40)

    ... This is a roadmap to drive the U.S. economy over a cliff. Assuming he completes ... as a professor of constitutional law. What constitution could he possibly have had in mind ... a president or a Congress to address Supreme Court rulings with which they may find fault. ...

  • San Diego curfew law is flawed, court says (9 Feb 2010 08:56)

    ... Amendment Rights protected by the United States Constitution, and attending school, religious or recreational activities. ... by a court. In 1997, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the ... Pastore said. Prosecutors could ask the state Supreme Court to review the ruling. A lawyer with ...

  • Virginia, other states race to pre-empt health reform (9 Feb 2010 13:55)

    ... passed bills that would impose penalties on U.S. residents who fail to secure insurance coverage, ... legal scholars believe Congress would win a Supreme Court fight because the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government authority over the ...

  • The Trouble With Progressives (9 Feb 2010 05:37)

    ... The maximum hours question returned to the United States Supreme Court three years later in with this twist-Oregon's ... under the Due Process clause to the Constitution. It continues by saying that this liberty ...

  • David H. Souter To Headline Harvard's 2010 Commencement (9 Feb 2010 01:58)

    ... Souter To Headline Harvard's 2010 Commencement Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 will deliver ... Sonia M. Sotomayorsaid during this year's annual Constitution Day event that he planned to undertake ...

  • End of our democracy? (9 Feb 2010 09:52)

    ... have wondered after the announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that corporations, if treated as if they ... contributions) under the First Amendment to the Constitution. However, corporations are not the same as ...

  • Supremes do it again (9 Feb 2010 07:55)

    ... very high bar for him to overturn Supreme Court decisions that had been in place and ... of government is most powerful: the unelected U.S. Supreme Court. It was another 5-4 decision ... D-Iowa, introduced legislation that would amend the Constitution to nullify the Court ruling, but that ...

  • Fewer civil cases go to juries due in large part to cost (9 Feb 2010 05:55)

    ... to 570 last year, according to state Supreme Court statistics. It's a nationwide trend that legal ... bedrock of not only Virginia but the U.S. Constitution," said Jack Harris, director of the Virginia ...

  • Politicians can now be sold to the highest bidder; Health care may be most critical issue of our lives; Those joining mascot bandwagon are 'busy-bodies\'; Political strength needed to pass health care reform');" onmouseout (9 Feb 2010 09:56)

    ... corporate lobbyists. The current decision of the U.S. Supreme Court will allow corporations to dip into corporate ... country, representative government. The framers of our Constitution anguished, feared and warned against allowing the ...

  • Dems sign on to GOP bill preventing funds for civilian Guantanamo trials (9 Feb 2010 05:13)

    ... spent on prosecuting Guantnamo Bay suspects in U.S. federal court. Reps. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and ... the military take care of them. The Supreme Court ruled that military tribunals at Gitmo are ... to/appeasing "freedom hating terrorists" by shredding our Constitution, the same one these cowardly elected officials ...

  • 2 men challenge federal law barring lies about military medals (9 Feb 2010 05:36)

    ... to have received a medal from the U.S. military. It is a crime even if ... are not protected. He also says the Constitution gives Congress the authority to raise and ... the categories of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court has said can be banned: lewd, obscene, ...

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